Leaf Synonyms

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The leafy organ of a plant
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bract
  2. frond
  3. blade
  4. folio
  5. foliage
  6. stipule
  7. leaflet
  8. needle
  9. petiole
  10. stalk
  11. scale
  12. protective leaf
  13. floral leaf
  14. acanthus deciduous
  15. leaf-stalk
  16. seed-leaf
  17. petal
  18. calyx leaf
  19. defoliate
  20. bracteole
  21. defoliation
  22. sepal
  23. lithophyl
  24. fascicle
  25. leafage
  26. caulis
  27. fascicule
  28. perianth
  29. foliaceous
  30. foliated
  31. in foliage
  32. foliation
  33. fully leaved out
  34. foliferous
  35. follow someone's example
  36. take after
  37. copy
  38. frondation
  39. frondesce
  40. frondescence
  41. quire
  42. indeciduous
  43. lithophyll (fossil leaf). associatedwords: foliar
  44. spire
  45. verticil
  46. whorl
To look through reading matter casually.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. thumb
  2. scan
  3. riffle
  4. skim
  5. Also used with through: browse
  6. dip into
  7. flip through
  8. blade
  9. bract
  10. glance at
  11. browse
  12. foil
  13. folio
  14. flick
  15. frond
  16. glance
  17. run-through
  18. insert
  19. needle
  20. flip
  21. page
  22. petal
  23. scale
  24. sepal
  25. spathe
  26. stalk
  27. riff
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Matter in thin, smooth form
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. skin
  2. coat
  3. sheath
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. acerose
  2. cordate
  3. digitate
  4. elliptic
  5. falcate
  6. foliaceous
  7. foliate
  8. hastate
  9. lanceolate
  10. linear
  11. lyrate
  12. obovate
  13. orbicular
  14. ovate
  15. palmate
  16. peltate
  17. pinnate
  18. pinnatifid
  19. reniform
  20. runcinate
  21. spatulate
  22. subulate
  23. ternate
  24. trifoliate

Words Related to Leaf

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. sheet
  2. investigate
  3. words
  4. seed-pod
  5. twig
  6. inflorescence
  7. uredospore
  8. bracket-shaped
  9. whorled
  10. drupe
  11. berry-like
  12. cup-shaped
  13. tuber
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Leaf Sentence Examples

  • There was evaporation of water from the leaf.

  • He looked relieved and reached up, pulling a leaf from her hair.

  • I hung up, my hand still shaking like a leaf in a windstorm.

  • A golden leaf floated down in the cool morning mist and joined a carpet of others under the tree.

  • Hardly a leaf is visible to the height of one's head; but above, a crown of thick leather-like leaves shuts out the sunlight.

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